Who's your favorite painter?

[Guest]

 

[ABSTRUSE]

right... TITTIES!!

PMSL!!!!

 

[McKenna]

Here's a really good in depth analysis of Waterhouse's St Eulalia:St. Eulalia It definitely wasn't your usual rose lipped maidens/happy cherubic children painting of that era.

I scanned this article and I must say ... Damn! I had no idea so much could be taken from one painting.


I feel woefully inadequate with my "Gee, aren't the colors pretty" comments.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

I scanned this article and I must say ... Damn! I had no idea so much could be taken from one painting.


I feel woefully inadequate with my "Gee, aren't the colors pretty" comments.

I know! This is why I can never be an art critic. It also makes me wonder if they aren't reading too much into it. Maybe Waterhouse just wanted to piss people off.

 

[McKenna]

I know! This is why I can never be an art critic. It also makes me wonder if they aren't reading too much into it. Maybe Waterhouse just wanted to piss people off.

Sort of the "Loving Wives" author of the painting world?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I know! This is why I can never be an art critic. It also makes me wonder if they aren't reading too much into it. Maybe Waterhouse just wanted to piss people off.

That's my goal.

My opinion is those who can't paint critique to show how pretentious and stupid they really are.

 

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[OhMissScarlett]

That's my goal.

My opinion is those who can't paint critique to show how pretentious and stupid they really are.

Hmm, I wonder if that applies to other sorts of critics as well.

Sort of the "Loving Wives" author of the painting world?

*snicker* I wonder if his reviews were written in all caps?

i tell ya it was to show TITTIES!!!

It's important to get the boobies just right. I think Durer said that.

 

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[ABSTRUSE]

http://cv.uoc.es/~991_04_005_01_web/fitxer/millais.jpg

My other love...Millais

 

[ABSTRUSE]

http://www.artyst.net/E/EverettMillais19/EverettMillaisCarpenterShop.jpg

The critics didn't like his depiction of the Christ child.


Rhino: love the titties.

 

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[ABSTRUSE]

The critics didn't like his depiction of the Christ child.

nor did "they" like My rendition of Samson and Delilah

Bastards.

 

[Guest]

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Colly, if you like his work, maybe you would be interested in a fairly famous Montanan artist Named Charles Russell. He's really well known in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and the Dakotas. I have found that when I was growing up he was a very big deal in Montana, but the further south I come, the less he is known of. His works are really tremendous. He actually lived with and among native Americans and a lot of his Art is from his experiences.
http://www.askart.com/photos/cor7282001/90.jpg
http://www.wildlifeart.org/ArtImages/Large/VBS.jpg

I love russle too

Have a framed print of Wounded but still coming, in my livingroom

 

[Colleen Thomas]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Soryama (sp?)

By far and away one of the best erotic/fetisitic artists I have ever seen.

 

[Guest]

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I mentioned him. Along with Olivia

(while blasting Brotthers Hildebrandt and Boris Vallejo)

That was classic.
I love Brom too

 

[AppleBiter]

My fave is VanGogh. My favorite of his paintings is Starry Night.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

http://www.cabalcity.com/angels/artwork/Brom/Desolation_Angel_Brom.jpg

Brom

http://www.billythebrick.com/models/figures/missmuffet-brom.jpg

 

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[Equinoxe]

Sadly many contemporary illustrator/painters are under valued ..especially if they fall into the catagory of Science fiction or Fantasy...or merely illustrator.

To me the BEST Artists ARE illustrators. Hell, that is the history of fine arts. Painters painting for a patron ILLUSTRATING...a prospective bride, an event, a religious parable. Only relatively recently have we experience "art" for Art's sake...Or more acurately for the artist's sake.

You wouldn't happen to be biased, would you?

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Sadly many contemporary illustrator/painters are under valued ..especially if they fall into the catagory of Science fiction or Fantasy...or merely illustrator.

To me the BEST Artists ARE illustrators. Hell, that is the history of fine arts. Painters painting for a patron ILLUSTRATING...a prospective bride, an event, a religious parable. Only relatively recently have we experience "art" for Art's sake...Or more acurately for the artist's sake.

I can't agree with you more, so many incredible artists out there are illustrators. They always get the shaft.(I'll let McKenna look up the meaning of that one)

When you think of it, illustrators probably have their worked viewed more than most artists. They are visual story tellers. That's what I went to school for...not that it's done me any good.

 

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[Lucifer_Carroll]

Finally answering the whys

Sorry, looked at the beginning and saw we were supposed to give whys for our favorites.

Giger just had something with the gothic surrealism that just jumped out away from all the postmodern pieces. The details on his biomechanical visions and the sheer cold visage of his simpler pieces like the human bullets. He always seemed to catch the inner struggle of man in a way that was groteque yet poignant and invariably cool. Only recently was I finally able to snag a Giger print for my wall. My friends all backed away slowly from the squeal of joy I emitted at that moment. I believe they are still in contact with the nice young men in the clean white coats.

Bacon strikes me most so for his famous painting of the faceless man screaming in the empty box. Again the sort of surrealistic, cubist, and bizarre works painted a world of bizarre unheard pain, a metaphor for stifled life in modern society. Plus, it's f---ing cool.

McKean is similar. Bizarrity, exploration, creativity, bordering on the grotesque and other-worldly.

Monet. I have a soft-spot for impressionism. Need I say more. One of my best memories is looking at the Monets in L'Orangerie Musee in Paris.

Yoshitoshi. One of the few anime style artists to not use the primary colors, stiff lines, and gravity defying boobs that so characterize most of the works. His characters are often more conservatively dressed, yet still exude a personality that goes beyond the written. It's difficult to describe but it is an anime style that feels real (odd considering its impressionism meets (essentially) cartoon. His drawings are mostly to blame for the myriad of wall scrolls hanging in my room.